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Kayaking at Lake Charles State Park

Arkansas State Parks Trip Ideas

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  • Waymon Cox
  • Arkansas State Parks Staff
  • Monika Rued
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  • [X] Sasha Bowles

Date Published

  • March 2021

Trail of Tears Across Arkansas State Parks

Mar 2021
  ⁄  
Sasha Bowles

Arkansas has hundreds of miles of the Trail of Tears, and of the nine states traversed by the trail, is the only state that witnessed the removal of all five of the Southeastern tribes as they moved west. Arkansas State Parks has five parks that lie along these removal routes. These parks have been certified as National Park Service Trail of Tears National Historic Trail...

Petit Jean State Park
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